Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called ...

Many people are familiar with lactate primarily from sports, where it is produced in muscle cells during physical exertion.

By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells—early embryonic cells ...

Scientists have long suspected that stress hormones help fuel the spread of cancer. Now, new research has uncovered how a ...

Cellular differentiation of stem cells into specialized cells requires many steps, including division, to create more cells; fate determination, which is a commitment to a specific lineage or ...

Two new USC studies unveil a blueprint that makes it possible to generate specific kidney cell types on demand—cells that ...